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Tagged William Hartnell

Around 12 months ago, you may have seen mention here or elsewhere on the web of “The Day of Doctor Who”, the fifth anniversary story of our favourite TV show, commemorated with the superb artwork you can see above by Vworp Vworp! designer Colin Brockhurst. This quirky collection, which features an ‘imaginary’Radio Times cover for November…

Here’s a treat for all: the surprising release of a long-lost segment from an edition of Desert Island Discs from 1965 featuring one of television’s biggest stars, William Hartnell! Sadly, the full recording is no longer available, but the clip above does at least give us an insight into the first Doctor Who star’s early life, which…

Apparently we should blame Russell T Davies. It’s his fault that the Daleks standing as the Doctor’s greatest foe has been undermined by near total failure. Be it his reliance upon fleet upon fleet of whizz bang Daleks making lots of noise and not a lot else, or his attempts to dilute the Dalek DNA…

Barry Ingham, a British actor who worked alongside both the small and big screen versions of the First Doctor, has died aged 82 at his home in Florida. Born in Yorkshire, Ingham had an impressive and varied career in stage, television and film working with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in musical theatre in both…

If you’ve been part of the online world of the Whovian fandom for, well, any length of time (even for, like, just a week) you’ve seen the “Who is YOUR Doctor?” lists and quizzes and arguments that permeate the fandom. With so many different actors having inhabited the role, it’s natural that people will have…

It’s a peculiar thing that the worlds of Doctor Who have never really paid all that much attention to the Dalek invasion of Earth that the First Doctor and his friends helped to overthrow. This is of course a guiltier trait of the television series rather than Big Finish who have returned to the Dalek-ruined…

A blast: A destructive wave of highly compressed air spreading outwards from an explosion. A News Blast: An instructive wave of brightly compressed news spreading outwards in the standard paragraph form. That’s right: it’s time to unleash some compressed air with today’s gusts featuring a warm south eastern breeze of property violation, a rich, woody…